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UPDATE 12/21/13, 11:42 HOURS

I am revealing who I am today i.e. posting my name, I am Keith Oeffinger, I was born in San Antonio Texas in 1963. See today's post 12/21/13 .


Update, 01/11/14 12:30 hours;

I would like to say, with only one reply, like three years ago, this blog seems too much like a mirror site to me. And it appears very few patriots are looking back at past posts.

The new “Fragmented Fighting Facts” series of posts that dedicates one post to each Basic rule has now been completed. This series starts with the post tilted “Post # 1, Planning, Preface” that posted on 05/12/13. This series is under the label “Tri-F in progress”. Posts well be updated as I edit or discover additional knowledge thus the series is the most current version of my "Fragmented Fighting Facts" manual. For an old but complete version i.e. all in one post copy. Patriots are welcomed to try viewing one of the “pages” listed in the “special word section” on the starboard side of the blog. I say try due to the fact I’m not sure if they are published i.e. viewable to the general public due to all the issues or HACKING with my blog. There is also a complete copy posted, that is titled, “Tri-F in progress” too, it was posted 11/13/10.

And feel free to fire away with a reply, (sarcasm on).


FLASH REPORT; the “TERRORIST ARE NOT AMONG US, AND NEVER WERE I.E. AL QAEDA IS A STAWL MAN, GHOST”.

The most important lesson that everyone should have taken away from the Boston Marathon bombings was that those young men proved that no al-queda members are in the u.s. Otherwise they too would just go get some presure cookers and had to a parade.

“I AM NOT A TERRORIST” this nation’s worst enemy is FEAR. This fear is being promoted mostly by the back woods, right wing, Christians of this nation. We need to separate church and state, period. And that is of course for the States sake.


I would like patriots to understand that I use the terms "official revealed fact" to mean what everyone is being told by officials, media etc. I use the term "kings truth" to mean what I know or believe to actually be the actual facts. I DO NOT MEAN IT IN A RELIGIOUS WAY. I.E. the term Kings is plural as in those running the show.


Preface for the Fragmented Fighting Facts

Note pink highlighted material is that, that IMO is questionable factually, it maybe an “official revealed fact” that I am questioning. The material may need to be defined i.e. explained more or it could be a personal note. Yellow is location undecided or unedited material i.e. unread that I have not decided on what to keep or not. Green means a change has been made i.e. an update. By noting the green updated highlights a Patriot well not have to read the Fragmented Fighting Facts in its entirety to stay current. Red is important, perhaps the "kings truth".

Newjarheaddean; this is my collection of combat notes. One might call it my anthology of combat tactics, techniques, methods and skills. The note taking began about fourty years ago (I was around 13 years old) with the observation of 10 rules listed with in a book covering the French and Indian i.e. Native American, wars, entitled “Roger’s Rangers”. That’s right the rules that started all this are “Army Ranger” rules, this book was located in the “Westfall” library in San Antonio Texas off of Vance Jackson. I get a kick out of the libraries name due to the general agreement that modern or state vs state warfare started with the singing of the peace treaties at Westphalia. I could not read at the time; however I knew that a list in a book on war would be important. I copied those rules down like a scribe might have written hieroglyphs and had my dad read them to me. . This discovery preceded numerous sources including approximately one hundred books and about a dozen field manuals, of which a few were of WWII era. These were found at libraries, half price bookstores and garage sales. Since going on line in 2007, I have found material on web sites such as “Defense and National Interest” (DNI), “Global security”, “Strategy page” , “Wikipedia” and “Bayonet strength” and “Efour4ever” in the combat lessons learned section. These last two sites cover WWII.

Previously referred to as K.O.O.L.N. (acronym definition, top secret), FLASH REPORTS; I NOW AM TELLING EVERYONE IT STANDS FOR KEITH OEFFINGER'S ORGANIZATION OF LEARNED KNOWLEDGE the joke on me here was I believed Knowledge was spelled with an (N). I was a special education student and did not learn to read until my last year of high school. I have now titled my work “Fragmented Fighting Facts” or “Tri-F”; the name derives from the computer grammar function always alerting me to the fragmented nature of my sentences. This is due to the “just the facts, ma’am” manor the material is written i.e. there has been little if any effort to write in whole sentences or provide context. This is not to say there is no order with Tri-F, in fact there is a theme. I have laid out the information as one might expect a commander or members of a unit to recall it thus utilizing it to conduct a mission.

We start with “Planning”, followed by the section on “Defense”, then there’s “Preparations and conduct of patrols” or “PCP”, and we end with “Conduct of Engagements” or “COE”, i.e. engagements being the term used here for shootouts. Each section of Tri-F consists of numbered “Basic rules”, each basic rule followed by detailed notes that either relate to, explain, or give examples pertaining to the basic rules. As with the general format of Tri-F, each section’s basic rules are laid out as one might need to recall them. This is most obvious in the last section COE starting with basic rule number one, “Flash report”, i.e. actions to take upon contact with the enemy. This sections last basic rule deals with handling POWs.

Keep in mind this is a work in progress; I’m constantly discovering new information to add which in turn still at times requires rearranging things. At the same time, interestingly enough to me, I have not needed to rearrange my original order of the basic rules for quite some time. There are however, two instances where the detailed information fallowing a pair of basic rules became so similar I decided to combine the pair into one basic rule. These two occurrences are noted in footnotes.

Now heed this, out of all the information contained within this work, only an estimated 1% was taught to me while I was serving in the U.S.M.C. Moreover, to put a fine point on it, it’s worth noting I served in Charlie Company, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division, i.e. an Infantry unit. Before my discharge (after only a two year cruse), I attended Jungle Warfare School in the northern training area of Okinawa (for two weeks), Mountain Warfare School in Korea (for one week) and Combat Town Camp Pendleton for MOUT training (for one day). I did not take part in any amphibious training nor did I ever go to Twenty Nine Palms for Desert Warfare training. We did ride around in AAVs once at Camp Pendleton. All in all I would say the only things I missed out on were a beach landing (at Coronado I believe) and a little sun burn, due to the fact that those twenty nine palms, I was told in the early eighties were all located at the front gate of that base. Needless to say, the training did not impress me, and I now know it was not going to get any better as some suggested to me at the time, and still others later claimed that I should have just stayed in longer.

With my position on the lack of training, I do wish to make it perfectly clear that I do support the service women and men in the U.S. armed forces. I also believe them to be as brave as any people on earth, (with the exception of the (Y) generation). My concern is in the way the Infantry especially is being mislead and used. I want people to understand my experience and IMO a lot of evidence suggests Uncle Sam intends to use his infantry in ways that does not include training any generation in the art of “traditional Guerilla combat tactics” i.e. as a “Traditional Commando” would be. I am not talking about “SWAT” team “Close quarter” tactics, like the “Stick dynamic entry”. That tactic should be called the “cluster f**k”. Just call that sort of tactic what it is NYPD (Cops T.V. show bad-boys, bad-boys) in Afghanistan.

The problem is that that tactic was developed by police departments to deal with an objective occupied by drugged up party animals, i.e. untrained civilians. The police never use it in a spur of the minute situation. They use it when the house/objective has been under constant surveillance for mouths in some cases and the police know all manner of information about everyone in the house and the structure and neighborhood in general. The cops choose a time when everyone is pasted out from partying the night before and have long lost any weapons (between the cushions or under the bed) they might have had on them as show pieces during the party. The primary reason for the large numbers of police in close proximity is to make sure the gang does not think the raid is a rival gang “brake in” and thus resist in any way. There is lots of yelling too, thus reinforcing the message that no one is trying to be covert, like one would be to get away with a crime.

This brings up an intriguing observation of mine; that being that by the book an assault should be made from the top down, yet the troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere use the Stick dynamic entry and usually enter from the front door, like a SWAT team. However resent high profile raids show the SWAT teams attacking from the top down. Examples you may recall are the raids on the Shinning path group in Peru in 2000 and the Mumbai raid by Indian forces on the Jewish center in 2008. IMO this proves the existence of what I’ll refer to as a “need to know” training policy, being followed by various governments, the purpose being to limit the number of true Commandos that could become tomorrow’s rebels, apposing corrupt governments. One last thing about the Stick, IMO every single time the regular forces unit conducting one of these foolish Stick dynamic entries comes under fire i.e. runs into resistance, the Stick brakes i.e. the whole unit evacuates and awaits some kind of support form tanks, guns, tubes or air. Bottom line IMO the Stick is used as a probing tactic and is meant to be a moral boosting show peace tactic to make the unit feel as if it has taken a hill, which was nothing more than another empty building, that IMO Intel suggested, was the case before the entry was ordered. Recalling the police policy of long periods of surveillance prior to raids.

It also seems to me that in light of the old saying “you can fight a war with bombs and blockades but only boots on the ground can win it” ( IMO, Uncle Sam has now revised that saying, as fallows) “you can win a war with bombs and blockades, but only the infantry can end the war”, farther more IMO Uncle Sam has gone one more step and decided to use private security companies and local i.e. indigenous people for the infantry role. All this fear of true commandos is all very similar to the “Mujahideen” not being allowed by various governments, to return to their homelands i.e. native nations, after fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

And as for the U.S. and other Western nations, training foreigners to fight a counter insurgency goes. IMO this training includes nothing more than police procedures i.e. conducting investigations, forensics, searching individuals and buildings to collect evidence and yes serving warrants, if necessary, with those all mighty “stick” tactics. And of course, lots of “new innovative techniques and tactics” involving CAS and IMO (Old) so called high tech equipment the U.S. Military Industrial Congressional Complex wants to clear out of the warehouses.

All in all IMO Uncle Sam has chosen to put just about all his eggs in one advanced technology system, think Star Wars Storm Troopers or Matrix i.e. the Operator or Morpheus trying to guide Neo and others to safety. IMO it looks something like this; (x) unit go to (x) address, kick in front door, use stairs to your right, go south down hallway to (x) door, it is unlocked, interning room go to (x) window looking out window to the north you will see your target running east though the neighbors garden. All this information and the “live” feeds of target and area of operations would be provided by a fleet of satellites as well as Near space assets that are never mentioned by the media as current military assets and of course there’s the robots, UAVs and a flood of other covertly deployed sensors as well as covert eves dropping of any civilian electronic devices in the Area of operations.

Thus in light of these and similar so called “new innovative, techniques and tactics” (notice the media and governments choice of words “techniques and tactics” as if we’re talking Commando training i.e. why not use some modern high tech terms the system is so eager to introduce us all to normally as a matter of routine), IMO Uncle Sam has placed the traditional Guerrilla combat tactics, on the back burner and is hoping they all go the way of other black arts.

This is not just true of the infantry; let us take a peek at aerial combat. Does anyone out there actually think today’s U.S. pilots are turning and burning, pulling high (G) maneuvers trying to hit the entry windows and get inside the bandits turn. Think any pilot has conducted a yo-yo or split S maneuver lately or made the choice between a single or two-circle fight. Now days its all about stealth, ECM and Smart even autonomous weapons, missiles especially BVR tech. IMO this explains why the U.S. Navy is not concerned with not having a front line fighter equal to the USAF F-22 Raptor. An article I recently read on “Strategy page” mentioned a lot of talk about a Navy F/A-18E at an air show, displaying a little F-22 silhouette decal i.e. a simulated Kill credit symbol/icon. IMO the F/A- 18E did not gun down that kill.

And then everyone knows that just about all now and IMO soon all weapons systems including the bayonet well have a chip in it.

So if the electronics ever fail (maybe due to a shift in the axis of earths electromagnetic field, passed a certain point or perhaps a record size solar flare) IMO it well be the masters of the age-old Guerrilla combat tactics i.e. The Fragmented Fighting Facts Basic Rules that survive, keeping in mind “no one wins”.

I also wish, that those who join the various services where told all this up front i.e. “we do not intend to train you as a traditional Commando”.

Another thing I would like everyone to consider is that; what makes a Marine special is not the training she or he receives, no it’s the steel the youth demonstrates when they choose to join the Marines. Even when compared to the Special Forces, who IMO are only specialists in their particular field, once again mostly high tech specialties and whose ranks are filled with older personnel that have already been serving and have graduated from a boot camp i.e. are aware of the hoop and hype hurry up and wait tactics. And who are then usually chosen i.e. coached into changing their MOS. I am aware of the change in recruitment policy after 2001 allowing for direct entry into the S.F. community. IMO a rarity and IMO it is still not the same as just choosing to go to a Marine Corps Recruit Depot from the start.

Furthermore, to those who just well not accept the truth about the lack of training along the lines of traditional Guerrilla combat tactics. I can now say that I have exchanged comments with a number of Iraqi and Afghanistan combat vets. These comments can be found on the internet if you Google up my call sign, Newjarheaddean also spelled with one (D). IMO it is obvious that the tactics I speak of are news to the vets, some have made commits that proves in combat they were just winging it. And no, I don’t believe that all the vets are observing some kind of code of silence on these tactics including the vets who are against the wars. Unless everyone wants to say that YouTube and other internet companies are conspiring to edit all combat footage that shows these tactics being used and that, the vets are staging other videos that show them (albeit with great bravery) as armatures without a clue and winging it. If anyone ever sees video, showing the tactics listed in Tri-F being used, be sure and provide a link with your comment. I once saw a flash of film on CNN showing combat in Lebanon during the 1980s that showed some of these tactics being used by a Guerrilla fighter. I well also say I do believe that UAV footage is edited by the Pentagon to keep the public from seeing the few but well trained Taliban and other Guerrilla fighters that are using these tactics. Alternatively, maybe people think our professional highly trained well-equipped military is unable to defeat 10 – 20 thousand religious extremist amateur thugs in almost a decade of fighting. All the while killing at least by some estimates 100 a mouth including dozens of top commanders.

Let me also say, on the numbers of U.S. PTSD casualties, i.e. IMO, WIA, (And IMO deserving of a Purple Heart). The Government portrays these cases as a result of fighting a war that is “unlike any other war we have fought before” (LOL). Facing an enemy that is fighting in some mysterious and or cowardly manor that simply cannot be countered by military means. I believe the high numbers are a result of US forces fighting in a manner that is suicidal i.e. pointless and counterproductive to the real world situation. Example; you have a young brave American ready to fight for the nation, while on one of these IMO “Russian roulette parades” someone shoots at the unit from some building, everyone scrambles for cover, as some spray and pray, then after determining the location using SWATS (Soldier Worn Acoustic Targeting Systems) sniper detectors, or one of the many similar vehicle mounted systems the commander calls in some sort of CAS, if someone’s brains have been blow out especially if it was an officer or the location is vague, a real “crowd pleaser” maybe used i.e. 2000 pounder.

IMO this is how 90% of engagements (fought by regular infantry units) are resolved. Special Forces are now and in the feature more and more regular infantry well be using the Matrix. And to those that think this is the exception I say show me the number of WIA or KIA (On either side) by small arms fire i.e. during traditional firefights. Even if one includes sniper fire those figures are really low. So IMO after witnessing all the carnage and innocent civilian life being lost and receiving all those looks from the witnesses, it is the American that realizes it is his unit that is not fighting right.

This is reinforced and really sinks in back in the states when the vet is asked to tell the Commando stories that never occurred and thus the vet must tell the truth i.e. give up the Commando reputation, keep it all inside or start lying. If the first option is chosen that unveiling reality is demoralizing and makes it all not worth it. If either one of the other chooses are made IMO the vet becomes the ticking bomb. And I can tell you all that many times, I have recalled being told once that “when you go home keep your mouth shut about the things we did. If you don’t you well be thought of as a liar or crazy and either which way your life well be over”. That First Sergeant was right, but like my daddy use to say, “He’s right but he does not know why he’s right” i.e. IMO the First Sgt. thought of what we did in terms of remarkable heroic feats. However, IMO certainly since the beginning of the Vietnam era, it is the lack of training i.e. the manner in which our service women and men are fighting that keeps this tragedy going.

I would also suggest the vets of today are just like I was 25 or so years ago in the sense that they know there training is lacking, however, they just cannot explain what’s missing. However unlike me they refuse to accept that old fashion “black arts” are the answer i.e. should be the basis of basic training. And I now know the “Black art” tactics they and I should have been trained in and I can now say, “The PFC that told the Corp it was out of step, now has provided the proof”. What surprises me is that most vets it seems don’t care at all about the tactics I speak of and seem to view me as an unpatriotic “party pooper”, when I’m just a U.S. Marine trying to improve the Corps and save lives. Bottom line IMO the infantry needs to consist of unmarried i.e. undistracted, NO CHILDREN, dedicated true professionals, trained in the tactics listed in Tri-F and many more I am sure exist.

And to those that say “chivalry is for the museums” I say “first we must have peace on earth”.

One Newjarheaddean

“Let no Marines ghost say if my training had only done its job”

" Give me a million dollars and I well change the world"

" When it comes to persecution and suffering that fairly tale about christ dose not have (S) nothing on me"

" I well bet my lucky start"

“IKYG”

G-day!

Update; 12/19/14 09/53 hours




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Friday, March 29, 2013

must see "Democracy Now" 03/22/13

AHOY,

update; 04/05/13 17:32 hours; I have now posted an edited version of the transcript to the show and my comments. See text below in green highlighter.
Also today's Democracy now show is just as important to see. It's all about the so called "wild, wild west internet" and so called Free Press.
I did not post a link do to the fact tomorrow it well just lead you to the main page.

Update; 04/01/13 how ironic lol I start my counter posting to all these "official revealed facts" on "April fools" day, i.e. no bodies playing me for a fool.

 I'm not saying, I have it all figured out, I am saying I don't buy the "official revealed facts". And I'm "spiff balling" about what the "Actual Kings Truth" might be.

Here is the link, to the Democracy now show, its about Col. Steele and company,  in yet another "enterprise" imo, LOL, and like I have said, its always those same "usual suspects", i.e. those same U.S. government officials involved in all that Iran/Contra situation.

The LINK;

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/22/new_expos_links_torture_centers_in



IMO, the MICC, i.e. military, industrial, congressional, complex, is "playing war". And I'll never take that back or claim I was miss quoted. . And yes imo the U.S. is in collusion with the Taliban and many others that are identified by the U.S. as the, "allL quiiiieeedahhhh", Taliban",  "evil doers" here, there and every where. Further more, I've been saying this for about five years now anyways i.e. it's my revelation

I'll  said it again, "they" the MICC are "playing war" not fighting it.

Some of my "takeaways" from the show.

 Just for starters, So lets say "Steele" and his enterprise controlled a vast underground network. And then there was this other well  connected funded etc. underground or "insurgentency" yes, from out side Iraq. Other wise I would ask how many undergrounds do you think we have in Iraq. Realizing its always the "have vs the have not". 

Everyone knows the "official revealed facts" make it look like we lost Iraq i.e. the "Iraqis" are in charge, lol, So what, all of Steele's efforts bore no fruit?  LOL. II do believe Steele's efforts bore fruit., i.e. the U.S. won the covert  espionage war in Iraq. As they "played conventional war", I'll start saying. And NO the CIA was not fighiting the FIS or what ever we here the Russians are calling their CIA equivalent. The CIA were imo fighting any and everyone who thoght they were going to gain any influence in the area, period.

Lets just take these two tactics from my "Fragmented Fighting Facts" in the "Intelligence preparations of the battle field, I.P.B., Area Studies, Net assessments" section. You see imo "Steele" would have used such tactics although with some modifications, i.e. note the flaws in the tactics, I'm bring up. 

From Tri-F;
 ("One time, we planted someone to get kidnapped. A “Nighthunter” disguised as an NGO worker. We had implanted a tracking device in his body. During his captivity we learned a lot about our enemies. It was easy to rescue him knowing exactly where he was.")

 NJD;
IMO Using, an over the counter “pill” mic or "bug" if you well and having the “nighthunter” lol swallow it and if you constipated him, this might work for 48 hours. However imo most of those  kidnapped are moved around i.e. are in continuous transit for the first few days at least, so no valuable intel of the kind suggested here, like what questions are they asking those they kidnap, where are the interrogators etc. And If you think the bug was stapled up into the anus  I think any so called terrorist organization worth a dam, is going to check that anus cavity, pretty good now days. lol 

 And so it was Steele and his enterprise that were throwing all those bodies in the street to be bobby tapped imo by street thugs. You know then U.S. boys on the bomb squad had to go to work. 

From Tri-F;
(Equip every patrol with cameras. When fired on, you get a pictures of those doing the firing. Then, a "contract" is put out on those who can be identified. Sponsor a local T.V. program showe POWs who have killed civilians being interrogated. This has been highly effective in Iraq).

 NJD;
 IMO; But don’t show it on CNN.
From Tri-F
Distinguish between POWs on the basis of motivation, tribe, religion or some other basis that local people will recognize. Then, treat some as “honored guests” and send them home, while continuing to detain others. This can cause suspicions and divisions among our opponents.

NJD; Where are you at, BBC Arabicia, lol, you don't have any reporters watching these shows in there hotel rooms. LOL. 


Before looking at the transcript of the program, lets address this so called "treasure trove"  of information brought about by, wekileaks. I said right up front that this was going to be a "disinformation campaign" I believe I was correct.

From Tri-F; In the Psychological Operations: part under Propaganda, in the Planning, section:
("Bigger the leak, less information believed. Illusion that person has discovered information by his own hard work or by accident"). 

NJD; now the first rule is based on history, i..e. historically "treasure troves" are extremely rare and most likely not real information, thus your counter part well not buy it. However imo the "sheephood" is. Thus we have all western media playing all this up. However as far as I know Russia, China, etc. are not airing this dirty laundry i.e. using all this info in the wekileaks, against the U.S. at the U.N. are they?

Except for those dam embarrassing telegraphs or cables, lol. You know the once, over wires that imo were and are totally unsecured i.e. any cable can be physically taped. Any wave "rode" i.e. eavesdropped on.

Just a note here;
I had a real veteran of the "American Telephone and Telegraph company" the other day, tell me about just how fu*ked up the system is. She told me that over seas people are getting ten times the speed customers here in the U.S. are. They are paying almost nothing for it. One main reason is the situation here with the Infrastructure she said. To many people own different peaces of the same pie here in the U.S.
Now how could this not be reported by people traveling I thought to myself. And then I realized, most are staying in Five star hotels and don't care about the charges. They would even get service "comped" i.e. given to them for free. And these same 1% fu*ks are paying for and getting the highest i.e. fastest service here in the U.S. so once again they don't notice any difference.


Back to the "disinformation campaign";
I could see how one day some, NSA agent, was pouring over all this info, and made the observation that if some one, thought they had found this by accident, they may think they really have something. Thus the disinformation campaign was born. And its real purpose is to give all these information hunger media corps something to do, LOL.

You see imo all really "top secret" sh*t is still kept on "hard copies" and stored in file cabinets  all be them built into walls i.e.behind secret passages.


Update; 04/05/13 17:12 hours. any text below this line has been posted today. And I'll use the "green" highlighting for any changes I make below the embolden text after today. I have deleted some of the transcript and was planing on reorganizing some of it too, thus enabling me to consolidate my comments. However I got tired of it and so some repeat also occurs. But hay, most likely no one well be reading it anyways. 
Excerpts from the Transcript of the Democracy now show that aired ; 


NJD; I must admit I got tired of this, I'll have to return later to clean it up. I also had this post saved in "draft" form for a few days, thus it's disappearance from my blog. However I did not do anything different or change any settings with my blog, but my image format has once again (now for the third time) changed. I'm talking about how now after a patriot clicks on an image you get the multiple roll of images at the bottom of the post now (once again) as opposed to getting a large single page you have to use the "arrow" with to return to post and then click on another image. Prove me wrong you coward ass punks.



The Guardian and BBC Arabic details how the U. S. armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. It is a story that stretches from the U.S.-backed death squads in Central America during the 1980s to Bradley Manning.

NJD; my point the Guardian and BBC Arabic are not unlike CNN or Fox news i.e. they are part of the system.

Transcript;
"We spent six months trying to track down U.S. soldiers who served in Samarra," says the film’s executive producer, Maggie O’Kane, who notes the investigation was sparked by memos found in the Iraq War Logs released by WikiLeaks. "But many were too frightened because of what happened to Bradley Manning."

NJD; just a reminder that imo “wikiLeaks” was a CIA “disinformation” campaign i.e. a mixture of “true lies”. Bradley may not have known that he was being used. Remember for all we know he is gay. IMO CIA saw a chance to kill two birds with one stone i.e. they did not care what happen to him. However, more importantly, imo they saw him as someone who felt less accepted in the Army, thus not a career minded person.

Transcript;
Just over a year after the invasion, the U. S. funded a sectarian police commando force that set up a network of torture centers to fight the insurgency. It was a decision that helped fuel a sectarian civil war between Shia and Sunni that ripped the country apart. At its height, it was claiming 3,000 victims a month.

NJD; imo, at the one year point there was no, insurgency, any resistance was all locals. And the figure of 3000 victims a month would mean around 300,000 victims over the entire war. The causality figures of the overall war given on this program the other day suggested 130, 000 civilians.

Transcript;
Col. James Steele, veteran of America’s war in El Salvador. He was in charge of the U.S. advisers who trained Salvadoran paramilitary units. Steele was chosen by the Bush administration to work with General David Petraeus.

Transcript;
In the 80s David Petraeus, was a 33-year-old major, who visited El Salvador to study this counterinsurgency campaign. The young Petraeus even reportedly stayed in Steele’s house while there.

NJD;
And thus, imo, the so called Master who wrote the book on counterinsurgency (i.e. Petraeus) is really only Steele’s student. IMO Iraq was Steele’s last time in the field. He is just too old to be in the trenches, even with the aid of all those “performance enhancing drugs” LOL. And I can hear him now, when those running things (in this situation Rumsfield) called him with the Iraqi assignment. “Every time I think I’m out, they drag me back in” LOL this quote from the “godfather II or III” movie. However, Petraeus wrote the book and took the handoff from Steele, “she’s all yours kid”.

Transcript;
This is the only known Iraqi video footage of Steele, a shadowy figure, always in the background, observing, evaluating.

NJD; here we have a good example of the same old B.S. dramatic, hoop and hype, hyperbole used by the western media. Its filler buster and not required, if imo your just after the facts. However if you’re out to persuade peoples opinion, it helps. My point the media involved with this production are no different than the so called free press they are claiming missed all this by happenchance.

Transcript;
The man on his left is his collaborator, Colonel James Coffman. He reported directly to General David Petraeus, who funded this police commando force from a multibillion-dollar fund.

NJD: and yet another Col. Like the saying about “the best officer in the ranks is the Col. that never becomes a General. IMO this also works the other way. Thus just like the reasoning behind the normal interpretation of this saying i.e. a Col. has served long enough to know the ropes and has been vetted by the “Flag” officers. Further more the Col. is not high enough to cause to much of a stir if caught, thus all the talk in the media when Col North was sacrificed. I recall those in the Media asked, “how a lonely Col”, could get away with all this. “They” lol imo, all know how it works with Colonels.

Transcript;
The commandos that Steele let loose came to be mostly made up of Shia militias, like the Badr Brigades, hungry to take revenge on the Sunni supporters of Saddam Hussein.

The Iraqi leader of these feared commandos was Adnan Thabit. In the city of Samarra, his commandos and their American advisers turned the main library into a detention center, where torture was routine occurrence.

NJD; from Wikipedia, The people of Samarra belong to tribes that are believed to be descendents of al-Hussein (son of 'Ali). While the vast majority of Samarra's native citizens are Sunnis.
So Thabit is described as Sunni and now he is in charge of Shia militias like the Badr Brigades?

I also wanted to just repeat something here and add a little note too. 

Just for starters, So lets say "Steele" and his enterprise controlled a vast underground network. And then there was this other well  connected funded etc. underground or "insurgentency" yes, from out side Iraq. Other wise I would ask how many undergrounds do you think we have in Iraq. Realizing its always the "have vs the have not". 
So with my question of how many undergrounds do you think we have in Iraq, I just wanted to add that under Saddam imo it was just about impossible to from an under ground, other wise the CIA would have done it and killed him after he "left the reservation" i.e. keeping in mind he was U.S. boy for years!


Transcript;  
Joining us now in London from BBC headquarters is Maggie O’Kane, longtime reporter who’s been named British journalist of the year and foreign correspondent of the year.

NJD; so the system is rewarding her for bring out all this embarrassing facts? What is the difference between her and Bradly Manning and Julian Assange?  I’ll answer that one, She is part of the system.

Maggie O’Kane Well, I think when the WikiLeaks documents came out in November 2011, I had a sense, and the team that I work with who have spent a lot of time covering the war in Iraq, that there was a deeper story here. And one of the things that made us very interested was there was a reference to a thing called "Frago 242," which was Fragmentary Order 242, which was a U.S. military order instructing U.S. soldiers to ignore Iraq-on-Iraqi torture.
Now, this incidence, this Frago 242, came up over a thousand times in the documents.

NJD; a thousand times, man that well get your attention. Like look at me fallow me. F424om, lol, my Fragmented Fighting Facts, Physiological warfare;
“Bogus accounts frequently gain credibility through repetitive reception”.

NARRATOR: Vietnam, the conflict in which over 58,000 U.S. soldiers died, is where James Steele was first introduced to counterinsurgency. Steele served in the Vietnam War in the Blackhorse Regiment from 1968 to 1969. He was described by General George Patton Jr. as the best troop commander in his regiment.
But if Vietnam shaped his formative military career, it was in the war against left-wing insurgents in El Salvador that James Steele secured his reputation as the counterinsurgency specialist. Steele arrived in El Salvador in 1984 as the leader of the U.S. MilGroup, a group of U.S. military advisers to the El Salvadoran army.
Todd Greentree got to know James Steele when he was working in the U.S. embassy in El Salvador at the time.
TODD GREENTREE: Colonel Steele, as the MilGroup commander, was in charge of all of the special forces teams, the training teams that were out at the head—the brigade headquarters.
NARRATOR: The U.S. was trying to defeat a guerrilla insurgency, and American experts trained the Salvadoran security forces in the dark arts of counterinsurgency. Some of these Salvadoran paramilitary units were effectively death squads.
Celerino Castillo was a U.S. drug enforcement agent who was involved in training these paramilitaries. He was widely acknowledged for his efforts. Castillo met James Steele in Salvador.

NJD; the mentioning of the KIA during the Vietnam war is just more hoop and hype. MilGroup  this would be part of the “country team” i.e. the embassy staff i.e. the espionage group serving in the CIA. And Mr Greentree would have been part of that team, no dirt under his nails, LOL. And what about the DRUGS! I mean that all mighty covert money producing industry, that goes back to the “old silk trade routes”, no different from “fire water” or “crack” etc. 

AMY GOODMAN: The BBC Arabic/Guardian investigation called Searching for Steele. I wanted to turn right now, in January 2005, Newsweek magazine reporting the Pentagon considering using what it described as the "Salvador Option" in Iraq. Shortly after the article’s publication, investigative journalist Allan Nairn appeared on Democracy Now! His 1984 article in The Progressive magazine, titled "Behind the Death Squads," exposed the CIA’s backing of El Salvador death squads and led to an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

NJD; From my 424 lol Fragmented Fighting Facts, physiological warfare;
“Transfer association Target is convinced another respected group, organization or individual agrees with action, idea. Also others within group”.
I’m not going to bother researching if I am correct here. What I am suggesting is the case is that the mentioning of the article in “Newsweek” is not written by Mr Nairn, or they fired him because of it because his article that is mentioned is published in “The Progressive”.


ALLAN NAIRN: In El Salvador, and not just Salvador, but about three dozen other countries, the U.S. government, in an integrated effort involving the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department, backed the creation of military units that targeted civilian activists. In Salvador, I interviewed many of the officers involved in running these squads. For example, General "Chele" Medrano, who was on the CIA payroll, described how they picked their targets. He said they targeted people who speak—and these are his words—"against Yankee imperialism, against the oligarchy, against military men. These people are traitors to the country. What can the troops do? When they find them, they kill them."

NJD; were can we get a copy of the CIA payroll? And why not publish that payroll instead of just stating it, the reason is its just hoop and hype.

Transcript;
Actually, they didn’t always kill them. Often they brought them to the headquarters of the treasury police, the national guard, the army, and they tortured them for days. One former member of the Salvadoran treasury police, René Hurtado, described a course that was given at army general staff headquarters, where American officers gave instruction in techniques including electroshock torture. Hurtado himself said he conducted such torture. He said—these are his words: "You put wires on the prisoner’s vital parts. You place the wires between the prisoner’s teeth, on the penis, in the vagina. The prisoners feel it more if their feet are in the water, and they’re seated on iron, so the blow is stronger. … When it’s over, you just throw him in the alleys with a sign saying, Mano Blanco, ESA (Secret Anticommunist Army), or Maximiliano Hernandez Brigade." These are the names of the Salvadoran death squads.

NJD; I would suggest that any organization this tortured person was a member of would know who tortured and killed their comrade. And any signs, would be placed on the bodies to shame the “death squads”. These signs would imo, be place on the bodies by children.


Transcript; 
I was given a chance to see the archives of the Salvadoran national police, the intelligence archives, and you could see they had files marked "union," "student," "religious." They showed me a card file, which included surveillance reports on activists who had traveled to other countries. These surveillance reports were given to them, according to the captain who was giving me this tour, by the CIA. The whole filing system was set up for them by the U.S. Agency for International Development. ...

NJD; there is nothing unusual about these labels, it’s always the Unions, religious freaks and most often the educated students (Iran and Tiananmen Square, being great examples) that rise up. So does everyone understand that these same groups are being watched and controlled (as I post) in the U.S. i.e. in our “home land”. Like I also said during the so called “occupy movements” it was all a campaign to get those “would be” activist, out of the closet, so the government could identify them.  And now that the media has let those issues fall to the wayside the sheephood that was so fed up is okay with it all know. No bankers need to go to jail, just give me my MTV and latest sex scandal.

Transcript; 
Something on the order of 75,000 Salvadoran civilians were killed by the Salvadoran military, most of them during the ’70s. And the majority of these were targeted by these death-squad-type forces. So, one point is, these were not combatants who were being killed. These were not armed guerrillas. They were sometimes engaged by the Salvadoran military in combat, but the death squad operations, which the Pentagon, according to Newsweek, is now talking about using for Iraq, these went after civilians.

NJD; what, “most in the 70s”, where was all this cutting edge reporting back then. “Not combatants”, however in Iraq and Afghanistan this distinction was very important, LOL imo just not defined.

AMY GOODMAN: That was investigative journalist Allan Nairn. His 1984 article in The Progressive magazine was called "Behind the Death Squads." It exposed the CIA’s backing of El Salvador death squads and led to an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

NJD; “progressive magazine” imo this is a CIA front protect, to “fill the gap”, if you well,  before imo, the CIA had the kind of control they needed, to let “time” magazine  run such “disinformation” articles.

MAGGIE O’KANE: One of the interesting things in the WikiLeaks documents is that General Adnan Thabit, who ran the special police commandos that were carrying out the torture, used the phrase "to fight terror with terror," which is exactly the same phrase that was used by General Montana phon. in El Salvador when they were operating what was called the "platforms," which were basically the torture and interrogation centers. And what you have seen is an almost exact parallel between the platforms in El Salvador, which were the regional torture centers, and the platforms in Iraq, which operated in the same way, which was bringing in hundreds of mostly Sunni men and boys and torturing them for information.

NJD: once again all this under a “Sunni” General, who imo must have been in service during Saddam Hussein’s days, right?

Transcript; 
Now, in between the Salvador operation, we find that James Steele was involved in Iran-Contra, was one of six key people, along with Oliver North, that was funneling arms to the Ilopango air base to Nicaragua, to the Contras there. He then went on and was appointed by Dick Cheney to go to Panama to set up the police force there after the overthrow of Noriega. And between that, he goes in and out of the energy business. He’s employed by Enron. He works for various private military companies. And then he seems to be called back in at periods of crisis or at periods where they need his experience. So, in 2004, when the insurgency was gaining strength in Iraq, there is a call from Steele—to Steele directly from Donald Rumsfeld that he is to go to Iraq and to get involved in the training of the special police commandos. And this, we now understand, was to go to Iraq and set up a similar platform operation.

NJD; goes into the energy business, LOL just like with Cheney, i.e. what to fu*k did these guys no about the energy business. I know, but lets all say it now and retain it as we move forward. “It is not what you know its who you know”.

AMY GOODMAN: We’re speaking with Maggie O’Kane, multimedia investigations editor at The Guardian. She’s speaking to us from London, voted best foreign correspondent of the year, as well as British journalist of the year.

NJD; all the rewards, for what, revealing information that the U.S. should imo view with the same concerns for national security reasons as that brought to us by Brady Manning and Julian Assange?


NARRATOR: Samarra was the first place that the connection between James Steele and the activities of the police commandos was made known to the outside world. New York Times journalist Peter Maass convinced General Petraeus to allow him and photographer Gilles Peress to visit the commandos in Samarra. Their host was James Steele.

NJD; And these reporters took no images of the “ghost” I mean “host” James Steele. LOL.

GILLES PERESS: What I heard is prisoners screaming all night long, you know, at which point you have the young U.S. captain telling his soldiers, "Don’t come near this thing."

NJD; the interrogators must have slept during the daytime. And the U.S. troops most have not been patrolling or they would have had to explain to locals, “we’re not going near that place”, call the local police. Then the local would say that is the police station. And the U.S. personal would say, what “we are here to bring you democracy”. LOL. Where was that CNN reporter “weir” during this time?

NARRATOR: Gilles Peress’ stark black-and-white photographs capture how the commandos worked in Samarra. James Steele crops up in these photographs repeatedly.

NJD; okay so it i.e. the hoop and hype statement about “this being the only known video of Steele” is just that hoop and hype. He was not hiding as that statement would imply, just not caught on video, but lots of images. How, strange, mysterious, weird, lol, etc. Dose everyone understand now that all images of all kinds taken by reports would have to be screened before being released for publication. A very simple task in a completely controlled environment like a modern battlefield were the U.S. is “playing war”.

PETER MAASS: I was staying at the base in Samarra, an American base, and I overheard soldiers, American soldiers at this base, talking about having watched prisoners be kind of strung up like animals after a hunt over a bar, having watched prisoners be actually tortured.

NJD; dose anyone doubt that this reporter was inside Air-conditioned quarters or near the officers locations and anyone else in that area would have been in the command structure? So you think anyone would be talking real load in that area about anything secret. Maybe if they wanted to get kicked out, or if they were told too.

PETER MAASS: The interrogation center was the only place in the kind of mini Green Zone in Samarra that I was not allowed to visit. However, one day, Jim Steele said to me, "Hey, they just captured a Saudi jihadi. Would you like to interview him?"

NJD; so you think, they had just brought this Saudi in. And without knowing what he might say, Jim Steele is going to let this reporter in to talk to him. LOL. And like how many Rouge Saudi’s are there in this world. Like a revolutionary Saudi would not have enough work to do in the Kingdom.

GILLES PERESS: Was Steele completely together to bring us into the library? Maybe not.
NARRATOR: Maass and Peress were about to get an unprecedented glimpse into this clandestine world.
PETER MAASS: We kind of walk into the entrance area, and the first thing that I see is one of the Iraqi guards beating up one of the Iraqi prisoners. And then I’m taken not into the main area, kind of the main hall, although out the corner of my eye I could see there were a lot of prisoners in there with their hands tied behind their backs. I was taken to a side office where the Saudi was brought in, and there was actually blood dripping down the side of a desk in this office.
GILLES PERESS: We were in a room in the library interviewing Steele, and I’m looking around. I see blood everywhere, you know.

NJD; so someone must hose the place down from time to time or soon there would be blood on the chairs the reporter was setting in, I mean everywhere, on the door handles, dripping from the ceilings etc.

NEIL SMITH: At the time, I just felt like everybody knew and nobody cared that there was torture going on.
NARRATOR: Army medic Neil Smith remembers just how frightened Iraqi civilians in Samarra were of the special police commandos.
NEIL SMITH: What was pretty widely known in our battalion, definitely in our platoon, was that they were pretty violent with their interrogations, that they would beat people, shock them with, you know, electrical shock, stab them.

GEN. MUNTADHER AL-SAMARI: [translated] I remember a 14-year-old who was tied to one of the library’s columns. And he was tied up with his legs above his head, tied up. His whole body was blue because of the impact of the cables with which he had been beaten.

NARRATOR: Petraeus defended his record with the police commandos to PBS Frontline’s Martin Smith. He says he was aware of individual militia members in the commandos, but not militia groups.
GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS: Well, I, again, don’t—I have not seen—you know, we kept hearing this all the time, Martin, that this or that. To find the absolute evidence of this has actually been quite difficult.

NJD; why not use some of that electronic eves dropping equipment we hear so much about.

NARRATOR: But Jerry Burke, who was a senior adviser in police affairs to the Iraqi Interior Ministry says that Petraeus must have known that organized Shia militia were dominant in the police commandos.
JERRY BURKE: He had to have known. These things were discussed openly, whether it was at staff meetings or, you know, before or after various staff meetings in general conversation. Pretty much the whole world in Iraq knew that the police commandos were Badr Brigade.

GEN. PETER PACE: It is absolutely the responsibility of every U.S. servicemember, if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to intervene, to stop it.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD RUMSFELD: But I don’t think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop it; it’s to report it.
GEN. PETER PACE: If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it.

NARRATOR: The publication by WikiLeaks of thousands of diplomatic cables show that by July 2005 the U.S. embassy in Baghdad was telling Washington about the abuse being committed by the commandos. We also learned that Adnan Thabit was a guest at the American embassy in Baghdad. He met the U.S. ambassador for counterterrorism and talked about his approach to policing. This is an extract from what he’s reported to have said.
CABLE EXTRACT: "Summary: Fight Terror with Terror. ... Major General Thabit, who created and commands the Special Police Forces, is a Sunni officer who served time in prison for attempting to overthrow the Saddam Regime. ... They expressed the view that it’s necessary to fight terror with terror and that it is critical that their forces be respected and feared as this was what was required in Iraqi Society to command authority."

NJD; so is this the cable (i.e. the fact) of what he said, who put this cable together and “reported” what he said. Anyone want to know how the general’s comments were recorded? And imo anyone arrested during Saddam’s reign with any kind of evidence against you what so ever, never saw the light of day again. Especially a general. Saddam would not have wanted the officer corps to think they were above his law right? So imo his arrest was one of those situation were those running things needed to talk to him privately, thus bring him in.

NARRATOR: But there are indications that the U.S. government knew what the commandos were doing.
CABLE EXTRACT: "...we remain troubled by the indications that at times units commanded by Thabit cross the line."

NJD; code phrase used here, but not with other cable messages?

NARRATOR: Despite these concerns, Adnan Thabit remained officially in charge until the middle of 2006. He told us that the American officials he dealt with were aware of what his men were doing.
GEN. ADNAN THABIT: [translated] Until I left, the Americans knew about everything I did. They knew what was going on in the interrogations, and they knew the detainees. And even some of the intelligence about the detainees came to us from them. They are lying.

NJD; so much Intel, and especially on Saddam’s military, yet the military as a whole and the civil workers under Saddam’s reign ALL had to go.


Transcript;
Maggie, I wanted to get your response to the Pentagon response. While the former Army Colonel Jim Steele and the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld refused to talk to your newspaper, The Guardian, the Pentagon did issue a response after your report was published. Colonel Jack Miller, a Pentagon spokesman, told The Guardian, quote, "Obviously we have seen the reports and we are currently looking into the situation. As you know the issue surrounding accusation of abuse and torture of Iraqi detainees is a complex one that is full of history and emotion. It will take time to work a thorough response."

MAGGIE O’KANE: Well, I mean, we’re still waiting. And we know, unofficially, from sources within the Pentagon, that they’re—to quote one high-ranking military officer, he said to us, "The difficulty is that those guys were wearing the same uniform that we’re wearing now." So I think the Pentagon is in a very difficult position. And we await to hear what they’ve got to say. We have heard nothing from James Steele. We’ve heard nothing from Donald Rumsfeld.

NJD; LOL, the pentagon “blind sided”, they had no idea who was were reporting what in Iraq. LOL.

Transcript;
We also know that CENTCOM, immediately after the film was broadcast on BBC Arabic, set up a monitoring unit within CENTCOM to see what the response has been among the Arab population. We know also that there were public screenings of the film in Samarra, in which people came out onto a square to watch the film, which, in a sense, is a sort of acknowledgment of what happened to the male population of that time. But so far, the Pentagon has said nothing.

NJD; from my Fragmented Fighting Facts, Psychological warfare;

Joke; best weapon the CIA had against the KGB was the VCR. Use rallies, entertainment centers, stage productions, puppets, drawings in the ground, scaled models. Gifts know present and historical meaning of items. Symbols selection based on target analysis in terms of targets view of reality rather than what propagandist views as reality. The target audience interprets message based on previous experiences and learned responses. Therefore it is necessary to understand these experiences.


Transcript;
I mean, one of the interesting things I find is that the interest in this in Europe, for example, is huge. I mean, 14 countries have—are showing the film over the next 10 days and have bought it. But actually, within the America mainstream television networks, there’s been very little response, and also very little response from the American mainstream media. So I presume they’re just going to try and ignore it. And except for what your program has done, and also Real TV, it seems to have been played down.

NJD; the U.S. sheephood, ignores the wars all together. Only like, 3 million or so U.S. citizens vote.

AMY GOODMAN: So, you’re saying that U.S. Central Command, they’re monitoring reaction to this all over the world. And in the United States, the commercial networks, they did not option this film, this documentary, play it, especially at this time, on this 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

MAGGIE O’KANE: Well, Amy, it wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the WikiLeaks document, because so many things are about deniability and distancing and not taking responsibility. And El Salvador is a classic example. You can push away with a distance, and you can put a layer of, you know, the local police forces in between your actions, and there’s always been plausible deniability. What WikiLeaks gave us was a clear indication from the U.S. State Department that they knew what was—they knew what was going on. And it was that bedrock, and also the information from Frago 242 that officially there was an order to ignore torture, that, you know, give journalists like me and other investigative journalists the basis of something to work on, something that actually can’t be denied, because it’s there in black and white. And that is an extraordinarily valuable tool for an investigative journalism. And you wouldn’t be seeing this film, we wouldn’t be looking back at El Salvador, if it hadn’t been for WikiLeaks.

NJD; and like I said the Russians, Chinense, etc can’t make heads or tails out of this wikiLeaks? No airing of the dirty laundry at the U.N.

AMY GOODMAN: Maggie, I wanted to turn to another clip. The U.S.-backed police commandos are also accused of evolving into a Shia death squad targeting Sunnis. I want to return to your film.

JERRY BURKE: It became very obvious that this was criminal activity by the special commandos. They were eliminating their own opposition and terrorizing citizens from the Sunni community. We lost the support of a lot of Iraqi citizens who became very cynical and very anti-American. Even the ones who were friendly with us couldn’t understand why we were allowing this to happen.

NJD; So the great master of counter terrorism lost control of the commandos. Dam, it I hate it when that happens.


NARRATOR: But Donald Rumsfeld should have known about the death squad activities. James Steele had written to Rumsfeld six weeks earlier warning him that the police commandos, armed and financed by the U.S., were effectively a Shia militia engaged in death squad activities.

NJD; If that written message exist and no one in any of these free press media corps dose anything to put Rummy the dummy away for all his war crimes. I say that is prove enough for me, that this is all B.S. i.e. you take us to the edge of the cliff (give us the so called “actual kings truth”) and stand there enjoying the view, (waiting for someone else to try and do something about it) without throwing anyone over. Boy this nation has come a long ways from the Nixon era, LOL, NOT!

MEMO TO DON RUMSFELD: "MEMO TO DON RUMSFELD
“FROM JIM STEELE
"...thugs like the commander of the Wolf Brigade who has been involved in death squad activities, extortion of detainees and a general pattern of corruption. ... Nearly all of the new recruits within the commandos are Shia. Many of them are Badr members."

NJD: So anyone think they can make the case in court. Any supreme court justice, think “they” should take it upon themselves to bring the case? A real “unprecedented case” LOL.

AMY GOODMAN: Maggie O’Kane, talk more about what you have found here.

MAGGIE O’KANE: Well, I think what’s very important to understand here is that there was a creation of the special police commandos, which began in 2004, and over the period of the next year, they developed into a force that was nearly 12,000 strong, which had been armed by the Americans, had been—was being advised by them, and included this network of torture platforms. Then you had another step, which was, in June 2005, you had a highly sectarian Shia minister taking over in the Ministry of the Interior. And basically this force now was handed over also to his control, and it began a full-scale war on the Sunni community, which involved large-scale death squad activity.

Now, before this was—this was building up, Steele left in September 2004. Some of the other advisers stayed. And then, despite the warnings of many within the Iraqi political establishment, who said, "Do not hand this force over to the control of Jabr," it was allowed to happen. So, again, this brought the killing onto a new scale. Our information is that while Steele was organizing the platform of torture centers, there was not wide-scale death squad activity. That took place after 2005, when, effectively, the special police commandos were handed over to Jabr Solagh. And then hell broke out in Iraq. Through 2005 and 2006, there was a civil war, a sectarian civil war, in which as many as 3,000 bodies a month were turning up in the streets of Iraq.

AMY GOODMAN: A central figure in your investigation is a former Iraqi general who spoke out for the first time in your film about Army Colonel Jim Steele and the U.S.-backed torture program.

NARRATOR: General Muntadher al-Samari is a former general in the Iraqi army. After the invasion, he worked with the Americans to rebuild the police force. But Muntadher was very disturbed by the abuse and torture he witnessed being committed by the police commandos. He tried, on a number of occasions, to stop it. He has never spoken before about the part the U.S. played in running the special police commandos.
GEN. MUNTADHER AL-SAMARI: [translated] The Ministry of Interior had 14 to 15 prisons. They were secret, never declared. But the American top brass and the Iraqi leadership knew all about these prisons, the things that went on there—drilling, murder, torture—the ugliest sorts of torture I’ve ever seen.


But we understand that Steele was sent to Iraq by Donald Rumsfeld, and we understand that because Donald Rumsfeld actually writes to George Bush in September 2004 and tells him about sending James Steele to Iraq.

MAGGIE O’KANE: And the other thing that surprised me about it is that somehow in the kind of fog of war, that we never, as journalists, never really seem to reach the—to report it in a way that people could really understand what was happening there. There were reports. It was called "The Way of the Commandos." There were reports that torture was going on, but somehow it never penetrated, or it was never sort of acknowledged that that’s the way the war was being conducted.

And I think one of the things, the great things, that I have learned from this is that we’re very—we’re very easy with words like "human intelligence," "counterinsurgency," and that we don’t really understand that this is about systematic and brutal torture that has repercussions among the civilian population.

And also that there was one man whose history goes back through so many of America’s wars. And I think it’s indicative of a very dysfunctional, brutal time, that I hope this film will be a legacy that actually says, if you want to go to war, this is what war means. It means 14-year-old boys being hung up and tortured. It means men being turned on spits. And that’s called "counterinsurgency."

BRADLEY MANNING: I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained within the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A tables, this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general, as well as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.
AMY GOODMAN: Bradley Manning says he released these documents to open up a debate. Very interesting, as he remains behind bars facing decades in prison. Maggie O’Kane, you were talking about the information that was released, on which you built your report, having so much difficulty getting into the United States corporate media, though you’re getting it everywhere else all over the world.




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